The crypto industry is not short of various conflicts of interest. In the early hours of this morning, a fierce battle took place in the BTC ecosystem:

Ordinals founder Casey published an article on his Twitter and blog, pointing out that rocktoshi (@rocktoshi21, Ishimoto Satoshi), who claimed to be the co-founder of Ordinals a few days ago, was not actually a co-founder, and revealed more details about the two from the founding of the company to their parting ways.

Later, Casey also published a number of support posts from BTC bigwigs, each of whom revealed negative information about rocktoshi, including but not limited to fraud, intimidation, and unpleasant working relationships.

After collecting information from various parties, the incident is roughly as follows:

1. Ordinals co-founder title dispute


Two days ago, Satoshi Ishimoto himself tweeted, claiming that he was one of the co-founders of the Bitcoin Ordinals project, and said, "Before Casey joined, I was already studying how to implement NFT on Bitcoin."

Early this morning, Casey also published a blog post and synced it to Twitter, titled "How Ordinals was founded."

Casey said that Satoshi Ishimoto made no contribution to the conception of Ordinals, including the code design, and pointed out that Satoshi Ishimoto's possible contribution was to correct typos in the code repository.

As for the title of co-founder of Ordinals, Casey feels that it is a pure force-feeding.

Casey previously started a small company called Ordinals Corporation, but it was dissolved in less than three months. In this company, Satoshi Ishimoto was indeed a so-called "co-founder".


But this company has nothing to do with Ordinals in Bitcoin now. It was just a company founded with a small concept. If you insist, Ishimoto Satoshi is just a co-founder of this small company, not a co-founder of the current Ordinals protocol.

Casey also revealed more information to publicly cut ties with Satoshi Ishimoto:

“Rocktoshi became unreliable. I told him I didn’t want to work with him anymore, but he continued to be unreasonable and finally made a crazy demand for $5 million in exchange for his shares in the company… Even after we finally resolved to dissolve ordinarys, he continued to send me threatening, demanding, insulting, and emotionally appealing emails for several months.”

2. The community rises up to attack

Casey also stated that everyone had similar long-term experiences of being threatened, deceived, manipulated, and cheated, and began to focus on various accusation posts publicly posted by other bigwigs.

For example, Charlie @cbspears, the maintainer of Ordinals Hub, publicly posted in January this year that "Rocktoshi has been harassing me, trying to blackmail me, and threatening to sue me for the past 6 months."

The following sentence is a bombshell, although its authenticity is unknown:

“I am concerned that he will use the millions of dollars of proceeds from Nodemonkes project mint and his growing influence in the Ordinals ecosystem to continue to manipulate and attack others.”

Another @LeonidasNFT's remarks partially confirmed this interest relationship, saying that "Rocktoshi has launched many projects under various pseudonyms in the past 18 months. Node Monkey itself is good and will work well with or without Rocktoshi's participation."

Ninja trevor.btc @TO also publicly stated that he had personally experienced Rocktoshi's deception and manipulation. He said that remaining silent would only allow this behavior to continue and could harm those with fewer resources and less visibility.

Another community leader, Joona (@NFTJoona), directly posted rocktoshi’s chat history and said that they had a simple transaction, but then rock canceled the transaction and started blackmailing him.

It can be seen that Ishimoto directly called the other party a liar and threatened to take legal action in a tough tone. More revelations show that Ishimoto said that if he had to use his lawyer, he would charge Joona $1,600 per hour.

3. The world is bustling with people, all for profit

As of now, the authenticity of the fight between Casey and others against rocktoshi has not been determined.

In the face of this public opinion offensive, Rocktoshi simply responded lightly:

"I am not a liar. Everyone who knows me knows that. Including Casey. Every word I said was true. I am relieved to say this publicly. To Casey: I think you should calm down and stop the personal attacks and ad hominem attacks."

Who is right or wrong, or who touched whose cake, may not be that important anymore.

The world is bustling with people, all for profit; the world is bustling with people, all for profit. That is probably because the interests of former comrades were not agreed upon, and the community of interests began to turn against each other.

This ancient saying once appeared in "Historical Records". In fact, there is another saying that is even more thought-provoking:

When the granaries are full, people know etiquette; when they have enough food and clothing, they know honor and disgrace.

The big guys have had their fill and started quarreling over honor and disgrace. When will they be able to let the leeks have their fill?